Implement organizational and system leadership skills to promote high quality, safe patient care that emphasizes ethical and critical decision making and effective working relationships within a systems perspective.

Articulate multiple elements of quality, including methods, tools, performance measures and quality standards, and apply these within an organization.

Apply research outcomes within the practice setting to resolve practice problems, and work as a change agent to disseminate these results.

Use patient-care technologies to deliver and enhance care, including communications technologies to integrate and coordinate care.

Intervene at the systems level through policy development, and employ advocacy strategies to influence health and health care.

Communicate, collaborate, and consult with other health care professionals as a member or leader of inter-professional teams to manage and coordinate care.

Articulate a broadly defined understanding of nursing practice as any form of nursing intervention that influences health care at the direct and indirect care levels for individuals, populations, and systems, coupled with an advanced level of understanding of nursing and relevant sciences that is integrated into direct and indirect nursing practice.

The baccalaureate degree in nursing and master’s degree in nursing at Washington State University College of Nursing are accredited by the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE), One Dupont Circle, NW, Suite 530, Washington, DC 20036, 202-887-6791.